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This same story played out exactly a hundred years. Out of the turmoil we got the Progressive Era - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era As Nietzsche would say embrace the…

The Vatican has survived all that including the fall of countless nations and empires. Guess how they did it?

What do you think "rogue devs" are going to do once they stumble up on something their 3 inch chimp brain can't handle? They will call Large corp or Govt.

The "best" programmer you work with can be fired on any day of the week if corporate wonderland doesn't hit its quarterly numbers. They know this and the ones who survive get quite…

United States of Podcasters

"Talent" in a tech firm is overrated, because what tech firms do is over rated.

This is what Max Weber calls Moral Detachment. These people are not in direct contact with people who suffer. And so their intentions will always be mistrusted. Costs of which will…

Thiel has to be read as a counter to Hannah Arendt, Martha Nussbaum etc. Neither side has perfect solutions about how society should handle complexity, chaos and unpredictability. …

This has something to do with Irish whiskey.

The US ad industry already makes about 1000 bucks a year from one person's attention (70 bucks of which goes to Meta every quarter). People have been arguing its very hard to extra…

Cardinals elect the Pope. That's a democratic mechanism in one of the longest lasting institutions ever created by the chimp troupe.

They are AI

In the Attention Economy, the biggest Attentions whores win.

Is someone telling the ants how to "live life optimally"? Did they all get wiped out after more "intelligent" species showed up? The chimp troupe is really full of itself when it c…

C-suite is under mass assault from sales armies of ever increasing firms claiming all kinds of things. Its a War for their limited Attention. Claims will get more and more ridiculo…

Don't worry. Just monitor the rate at which data breaches are happening.

Too add more perspective They generate cash at a ridiculously insane rate (literally few bucks off everyone connected to the internet growing by 10-15 cents every quarter). What ha…

The kids are not even trying to do either. They are already gravitating towards multidisciplinary teams, cause unlike past generations they are dealing with a rate of change at a t…

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Well "we dont get into the weeds" with microbes. And they gave us CRISPR, Penicillin, Photosynthesis etc. Sentience is not required.

Wait till the bills arrive.